Presenter

Alexander Bock is currently a Research Fellow at Linköping University, Sweden and the University of Utah. Prior to this, he has been Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow with the Center for Data Science at New York University. He received his PhD in Visualization and Interaction from Linköping University, Sweden. In 2015, he was a visiting Research Scholar with the Community Coordinated Modeling Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, USA. He is also the Development Lead on the open-source Astrovisualization software OpenSpace, developed in collaboration between Linköping University, the American Museum of Natural History, NASA, the University of Utah, New York University, and the University of Vienna. Bock was awarded in 2014 and 2015 with the Best Scientific Visualization poster and in 2017 with the Best Scientific Visualization paper awards at the IEEE Visualization conference for his work in the field of Astrovisualization.